1962 Corvette

[Rich Chernosky]

The fifth in my series of 13 Corvette builds. AMT's 1962 Corvette.  A fairly simple kit but this one came with lots of extra custom goodies. Since I wanted this build to be stock most of those parts went into the spares bins.  More than half the kit were extras. I believe this kit was purchased very early in my building career.  It was painted in 2019 and the color was Model master Champagne Metallic #2922. I used Pactra Crystal clear and this was recently all polished out.  More details and modifications are in the picture captions. thanks for looking and comments welcome.

Despite the simplicity of this kit I thought the body was fairly decent. Moldifications included poseable front wheels and opening trunk. Lots pof bare metal foil work too.

rear veiw and the color in this shot really pops in the sun. Fit of most parts was what to be expected of an early AMT kit. Lots of flash on the parts too. Used  quite a bit of Tamiya black detailer to  tone down the chrome and bring out the detail.

Kit came with this optional hard top that didn't fit too well. I have quite a few miles in one of these as i had a friend who owned one. Since he rarely had a drivers licence  I was tasked with a lot of the driving. Too many stories to tell here but one that stands out is I discovered that this car was good for and honest 125mph but the drum brakes didn't work above 85mph.  Many of these cars were destroyed because of this. 

The 62 Vette was the first one to get the 327 engine.  It was optioned with fuel injection, two four barrel carbs or just one. This car had some serious power for its time. 

[Jim B]

Great looking Corvette.  Really well done.

[VanGoGo]

Looks great! I always thought it was interesting how '61 and '62 Corvette styling transitioned into the boat tail look of the '63, the shape worked well on the older and C2 'vettes.